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Der Preis für eine Unterrichtseinheit beginnt bei 27€ und hängt von dem ausgewählten Paket ab.
We match you with a guitar teacher who fits your goals and the music you want to play, so you can start learning online with no waiting list. Right after you sign up you receive a no-obligation trial-lesson slot via WhatsApp.
After your free trial lesson you agree on goals, playing level and availability with your teacher, and your regular guitar lessons start right away.
Book your guitar lessons online whenever it suits you. The SIRIUS Workspace gives you unlimited access to exercises, chord sheets and recordings of your own sessions, so practice at home always has a clear direction.
Want to play guitar and need someone to guide you through it? SIRIUS pairs you with a vetted guitar teacher in San Francisco based on your goals, your current level and the songs already on your list. Whether you have never held a pick, are picking the instrument back up after years away, or want help with one specific solo, the match is made for your case rather than for an average student. Sign up for the free trial lesson and we send you a session proposal with the teacher we picked.
The teachers we work with are practicing musicians who know how to break a difficult passage into steps you can actually work on this week. Our platform was built for music lessons, so your tone comes through clearly and there is nothing to download or configure. From anywhere in San Francisco you can join on a laptop, tablet or phone and keep the same teacher week after week, which is what makes progress stick.
SIRIUS gives you one-to-one guitar lessons shaped around what you actually want to play, and everything from finding your teacher to payment runs through a single platform. Adding a lesson before a gig or moving a slot when the week gets busy takes a few clicks in the booking tool.
Learn the fundamentals of rhythm, chord theory and the fretboard, then apply them to the music you like, from rock and blues to pop, country, metal or fingerstyle. Acoustic or electric, your lessons always meet you at your level.
Alongside your lessons you get access to a digital Workspace built to make practice more efficient. In the SIRIUS Cloud you find the tabs, chord charts and targeted exercises your teacher assigns, all in one place. Lessons can be summarized automatically, and recordings let you go back to the moment a riff finally clicked.
You can also join monthly group sessions to play alongside other students, swap songs and pick up feedback, so you benefit from one-to-one coaching and from a community of players at the same time.
More hours = a better price per hour. Every plan: 45-min one-on-one lessons with vetted teachers.
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Faster progress, more practice.
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“I've always played the same guitar chords and got much further into songwriting thanks to guitar lessons with SIRIUS”
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As a market figure and not a SIRIUS rate, private guitar teachers in the city generally charge somewhere between $45 and $90 per hour, with 30-minute slots often landing around $35 to $45 and experienced players at the upper end. Those numbers describe the local in-person market, so treat them as orientation rather than a quote. With SIRIUS you see your own rate before you book anything, your first lesson is free, and there is no long-term contract to sign.
Most beginners get through a recognizable song using two or three open chords within the first few weeks, provided they put in fifteen or twenty focused minutes most days. Clean chord changes usually take a couple of months to feel automatic, and barre chords often take longer than people expect. Weekly lessons matter mainly because a teacher catches the small habits, wrist angle, thumb position, uneven strumming, that would otherwise slow you down for years.
Yes, you need an instrument you can practice on at home, since SIRIUS does not supply or lend instruments. A solid entry-level acoustic or electric is enough to start, and used shops around the city sell perfectly good beginner instruments. If you are unsure what to buy, book the free trial lesson first and ask your teacher, they can tell you what suits your hands, your budget and the style you want to play.
For one-to-one guitar teaching they work very well. Your teacher can see your fretting hand and picking hand clearly on camera, often better than from across a studio, and can demonstrate a passage slowly as many times as needed. You skip the crosstown trip and the parking hunt, you can record the session and rewatch the part you did not catch, and you can keep a teacher who fits you even if they do not live in San Francisco.
Start with whichever one matches the music you want to play, because that is what keeps you practicing. Acoustic is self-contained and builds finger strength faster, while electric has lighter strings and a slimmer neck that many beginners find easier on the fretting hand, and it lets you explore amp settings and effects early on. The core skills, chords, rhythm, picking technique and fretboard knowledge, transfer either way, so the decision is not permanent.
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San Francisco earned its place in guitar history the hard way. Santana formed here in 1966 around Carlos Santana's Latin-inflected lead playing, and Journey was assembled in the city in 1973 by players leaving Santana and the Steve Miller Band. That lineage never became a museum piece. It still turns up in club rooms where a four-piece plugs in on a Tuesday and in the free crowds filling Golden Gate Park every October.
There is plenty to aim at. The Independent on Divisadero books touring acts several nights a week, and the Great American Music Hall keeps a similarly full calendar in the Tenderloin. The Hotel Utah Saloon runs a free singer-songwriter open mic every Monday, about the friendliest first stage there is. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass takes over Golden Gate Park from October 2 to 4, 2026, free as always, with William Tyler, Yasmin Williams and Gillian Welch on the announced bill. And when your neck needs attention, Real Guitars on Lafayette Street sells vintage instruments and runs its own bench for setups, refrets and pickup work.
The honest catch is getting to a lesson. Seven square miles sounds small until you cross them at six in the evening with a guitar case, and parking near a teacher's studio is its own small defeat. Good instructors are not spread evenly across the city, and plenty live across the bay. Add the shift patterns that run this town, on-call weeks, hospital rotations, restaurant closes, and a fixed Tuesday at seven stops working by the third month. Online guitar lessons in San Francisco take the commute out of it: your amp, your chair, your room.
The first weeks are about getting clean sound out of the instrument. Open chords come first, then the unglamorous work of moving between them without the rhythm collapsing, because the change is what beginners struggle with, not the shape. Strumming patterns follow, along with timing work against a metronome and a track, since a guitarist who holds a groove is welcome anywhere.
Then come the things people quietly give up on alone. Barre chords are hand mechanics more than strength, and a teacher watching your wrist saves you months. Fingerpicking builds independence between thumb and fingers, alternate picking gives you speed you can control, and hammer-ons and pull-offs let a line breathe instead of being spelled out note by note. You will read tab from lesson one because it is honest about where your fingers go, and pick up enough standard notation to talk to other musicians.
Both are taught, and neither is the beginner option. An acoustic gives you nothing to hide behind, builds finger strength quickly, and works on a park bench. An electric has lighter strings and a slimmer neck, which many find kinder on the fretting hand, and it opens up bending, vibrato and palm muting sooner. It also brings gear into the conversation: what a clean channel does to your attack compared with an overdriven one, and how reverb and delay can flatter or bury the notes you actually played. Your teacher will get a usable tone out of what you already own before suggesting you buy anything.
The point of practicing is eventually playing in front of somebody. Monday at the Hotel Utah costs nothing and asks for two songs. From there the rooms booking touring bands stop feeling abstract, and three October days in the park give you more guitarists to steal ideas from than a year of videos. Build it in your room during the week, then find an audience for it.
Kids do best with short lessons and songs they recognize. Adults starting from zero often progress faster than they expect, because they practice with intent. Returners who put the guitar down after college need one honest session to find out what stuck. Advanced players come for one specific thing and get it.
Tell us what you want to play and when you are free, and we will line you up with a teacher and a first session that costs nothing. Guitar lessons in San Francisco should fit the way you actually live here, and the quickest way to find out is to play for forty-five minutes and see.
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